How the rest of the world see us....

**BonnieShels** · 06/07/2012, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

have we all seen the thank you ad from Poznan on Stephen's Green - http://www.balls.ie/2012/07/05/have-...tephens-green/

There's another on O'Connell Bridge.

**geysir** · 07/07/2012, 10:34 AM

The spelling is better on Stephen's Green.

**nigel-harps1954** · 07/07/2012, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

The spelling is better on Stephen's Green.

Now, I'm no expert on the English language and on spelling, but, aren't they the exact same?

**geysir** · 07/07/2012, 12:37 PM

I don't think the spelling looks the exact same.
Do you really want to pedantically discuss the vagaries of layout perceptions?

**Crosby87** · 07/07/2012, 1:21 PM

Wow people really cannot lie to a boss anymore and go somewhere. Or lie to a spouse, etc... Between the seemingly thousand youtubes of Irish fans and billboards and signs, was anyone there not captured at least one time?

**jinxy lilywhite** · 07/07/2012, 2:15 PM

lol I was in Berlin this week fro the PJ gig. on tuesday I was in my irish attire and got a few looks. on the tube there a number of germans mention that we had world class fans and i could only laugh. My dundalk shirt got more looks lol as they where trying to figure out who it was
met a poor irish soul yesterday on the way home from poland who stopped over to catch the same flight back home. been there for 4 weeks and 3 days he said,

**BonnieShels** · 07/07/2012, 2:22 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

The spelling is better on Stephen's Green.

It was an unfortunate mistake on behalf of the sign designers to stick the i on a fold on the flip sign. There's a remnants of a tittle there if you look hard enough.

And we all know how we like to look hard for tittles.

**geysir** · 07/07/2012, 4:49 PM

Speak for yourself Bonnie.

**Stuttgart88** · 07/07/2012, 4:50 PM

Originally Posted by Crosby87

Wow people really cannot lie to a boss anymore and go somewhere. Or lie to a spouse, etc... Between the seemingly thousand youtubes of Irish fans and billboards and signs, was anyone there not captured at least one time?

I remember years ago I was sitting with a pal at a wedding and we were reminiscing about Italia 90. His own wedding was the same day at the Q/F in Rome, so he hadn't gone out for any of the games. I was at all the games and I got on to talking about the Q/F and that how after the game X, Y and myself were just too disappointed to have more than a couple of drinks afterwards. "X and Y?" he fumed. "They were supposed to be at my wedding but said their dad was sick"! It took 12 years for them to be rumbled.

**BonnieShels** · 07/07/2012, 4:51 PM

I think I did.

**paul_oshea** · 07/07/2012, 6:26 PM

well done stutta i can certainlt believe hand and foot and mouth from you.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 07/07/2012, 6:46 PM

Sort that typing out, please!

What will the rest of the world think?

**Stuttgart88** · 09/07/2012, 8:33 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

I think it's fair to say our qualification for the Euros caused a huge surge in interest in our international team not seen since 2002. What I would like to see is the FAI, through promotional work, somehow exploiting this whilst still in the public spotlight by linking increasing interest in the League of Ireland to the league's future development and, in turn, a potentially stronger and more secure international side in the long term.

Someone else agrees:

Lets cash in on the spirit of Poland before it evaporates

by a sports sponsorship guy in yesterday's Indo.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 09/07/2012, 9:39 AM

And there's more...

http://agroundhoppersdiary.blogspot....&max-results=4

**mypost** · 09/07/2012, 1:24 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

This one, presumably.

Nothing to do with LOI.

**tetsujin1979** · 09/07/2012, 2:20 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Nothing to do with LOI.

nothing stopping clubs from working on getting it associated with the LOI either

**DannyInvincible** · 09/07/2012, 5:20 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Nothing to do with LOI.

That's the point. It would be great if LOI clubs could somehow try and make a connection with this temporary surge in interest in the national team in order to promote the league and draw in more supporters. Make sure Irish football fans know there's a stadium down the road where they can get their "football fix"; somewhere where they can see potential future internationals on their doorsteps. Maybe even seek the assistance of former LOI players like Doyle, Fahey, Long, Coleman, Ward and McClean in doing some promotional stuff. The article to which Stutts linked also outlines some possible initiatives clubs could take. If it doesn't work out, so be it, but surely it's worth trying?

**ArdeeBhoy** · 09/07/2012, 11:31 PM

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Team_Badge.png

Badge of the week ~ Republic of Ireland
You can almost hear the haunting tin-whistle, can't you. The vivacious swirls and broken lines of the new Irish logo add a contemporary playfulness to the plain iconography of a football on a plain background. The circular lines are not quite closed, are they? The line leaves its home and roams around chirpily, but does it actually return to its starting place? Will it return for the wild rose that's waiting for it, in the place where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea, one wonders. This, like so many emigrant dreams, must remain unresolved.

  The sparky nature of this image was designed to entice people to spend a weekend in Ireland pursuing "the craic". But you won't find it everywhere. It looks like you will in the Tourist Information films but establishments such as newsagents, dry cleaners, builders merchants, hospitals and back-street boxing clubs don't necessarily recognise the craic. Cameron Carter

From WSC.

**Crosby87** · 10/07/2012, 1:10 AM

THE Cameron Carter?
Im too lazy to put up a lil wayne thing.

**mypost** · 10/07/2012, 2:54 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

That's the point. It would be great if LOI clubs could somehow try and make a connection with this temporary surge in interest in the national team in order to promote the league and draw in more supporters. Make sure Irish football fans know there's a stadium down the road where they can get their "football fix"; somewhere where they can see potential future internationals on their doorsteps. Maybe even seek the assistance of former LOI players like Doyle, Fahey, Long, Coleman, Ward and McClean in doing some promotional stuff. The article to which Stutts linked also outlines some possible initiatives clubs could take. If it doesn't work out, so be it, but surely it's worth trying?

People know there is local football down the road, but they don't want to know. Poles and other nationalities have been coming here for years, but the vast majority of them don't want to know either. They don't put up with "weekend" league games held two hours after a full working day, poor quality stadia, expensive ticket prices, and taking holidays from work as we have to do to watch away games, because that's the way it was always done.

LOI clubs have to attract people, instead of adopting the "our way or the highway" approach. Refusing to cater for your customers is a sure way of not attracting them.